HB2136 • 2025

Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Representative Scharf,, Helfrich, Representative Elmer,, Evans,, Levy B,
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites.

Digest: The Act tells ODEM to run a grant program to improve fairgrounds that are used for evacuations.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells ODEM to run a grant program to improve fairgrounds that are used for evacuations.
(Flesch Readability Score: 70.1).
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-02-24 House
Recommendation: Do pass and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
2025-02-24 House
Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
2025-02-20 House
Work Session held.
2025-02-13 House
Work Session cancelled.
2025-02-06 House
Public Hearing held.
2025-02-04 House
Public Hearing held.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells ODEM to run a grant program to improve fairgrounds that are used for evacuations. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1).
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to fairgrounds; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2136
Sponsored by Representative SCHARF (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act tells ODEM to run a grant program to improve fairgrounds that are used for
evacuations. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1).
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program
to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to fairgrounds; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
There is appropriated to the Oregon Department of Emergency Manage-
ment, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of
$20,000,000 for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 2 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 2. (1) The Oregon Department of Emergency Management shall develop and
implement a program to award grants for improvement of fairgrounds that are used as
emergency evacuation sites.
(2) Grants awarded under this section may be used only for the purposes of improving
fairgrounds in Oregon that are designated as emergency evacuation sites by a local govern-
ment, as defined in ORS 174.116.
(3) Grants awarded under this section must be used to construct or improve fairground
infrastructure that is essential for emergency needs, including power, water, telecommuni-
cations and sewer infrastructure.
(4) The department shall prescribe the form and process by which owners or operators
of fairgrounds may apply for and be awarded grants under the program.
(5) The department shall require recipients of grants under this section to report annu-
ally to the department on the progress of projects funded by the grants until the projects
are completed.
(6) In awarding grants under this section, the department shall seek to maximize the
overall emergency preparedness of communities that have designated a fairground as an
emergency evacuation site.
SECTION 3. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2029.
SECTION 4. This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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